Gym owner (16 years), father of competing kids (three competing, one of which is an elite and multiple-time national champion in T&T and national medalist in DP-level artistic, another who has a college scholarship in a different sport and third who is finishing up hoping to follow her sister's...
We asked about going to the campus on our own, but visitors from our state aren't allowed into their state without a 14-day quarantine right now, so that was shot down pretty fast.
I've only twice not let a kid compete an event and that's because of safety and not because of a punishment. Usually we have a backup-skill or just compete the routine without the skill and take the start value and other deductions that come with it (hoping the lower score serves as a...
Not true in the least. No organization will care what you do as long as you pay them their registration fees. In fact, the NGA was suggesting that athletes do both. We've done multiple in the past, AAU and USAG. You just can't do more than one state/regionals per season (fall season/spring...
We're doing NGA simply because of proximity. It's a haul for us to go to USAG meets where we're at and we like some of the options. The timing of the season is better too. We felt USAG is too compact for upper levels to improve during the season. Of course, for our other programs, men's, acro...
DII and DIII can recruit on campus (my kid is going to visit a DIII later this month... family lives there). Has a loose scholarship offer from a DI, but can't go on a visit and the coach doesn't want her to commit without visiting. Hoping for the spring to visit.